Winston Churchill Quotes

Winston Churchill Quotes

Here are some inspiring quotes by Winston Churchill you may like to read.

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

History is written by the victors.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days, the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

You must look at facts because they look at you.

In war, as in life, it is often necessary, when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.

Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather.

Everything is eminently practical and things are judged from a matter of fact standpoint.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: This was their finest hour.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny.

Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured.

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